My Crawford files from Dodge City, Kansas, contain several handwritten notes from the Miscellaneous Books found in the Register of Deeds Office. Today’s find establishes that James H. Crawford and J. H. Crawford are the same person in June 1908.
Affidavit of H. B. Bell
sworn 18 Jan 1929
filed 18 Jan 1929that for 35 or 40 yrs was personally acquinted with James H. Crawford of Dodge City who is named as grantee of George W. Reighard in a W.D. dated 22 Aug 1883 recorded Vol D p 151 …
further states that James H. Crwford was a large property owner in Dodge City, Kansas, especially as to property south of the Arkansas RIver … said James H. Crawford frequently executed deeds as J. H. Crawford …
further states that during the residence of said Crawford in Dodge CIty and in the month of June, 1908, when he died, there was no other J. H. or James H. Crawford and J. H. Crawford appear in the reocrds of Register of Deeds of Ford County Kansas or in any other public record of Ford County with relation to any property whatsoever in Dodge City that the said names apply and refer to one and the same person, to-wit: James H. Crawford.
Ford County Kansas, Deeds, MIscellaneous Book J p 24; James H. Bell, 18 January 1929; Register of Deeds, Dodge City Kansas.
